Identity, Meaning, and Subjectivity in Career Development Evolving Perspectives in Human Resources /

• Main Author: Gedro, Julie (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Palgrave Explorations in Workplace Stigma
• Subjects: Business.; Leadership.; Personnel management.; Self.; Identity (Psychology).; Business and Management.; Human Resource Management.; Business Strategy/Leadership.; Self and Identity.

This book closely interrogates the construct of identity and the role it plays in career development. It provides guidance for HRD practitioners and researchers who create career development programs through a typology of different categories of identity, such as demographics, life events, and caree...

Table of Contents:

• FOREWARD.-PREFACE
• 1. INTRODUCTION: CONTEXT, PURPOSE, PROBLEM
• 2. EXAMINING THE CONSTRUCT OF IDENTITY AND ITS RELEVANCE FOR HRD THEORY AND PRACTICE OR TURNING THE LENS OF EXAMINING IDENTITY INWARD UPON HR PROFESSIONALS
• 3. IDENTITY IS CONSTRUCTED AND CAREER SUCCESS IS SUBJECTIVE
• 4. DEMOGRAPHICS, IDENTITY AND THE MATRIXED NATURE OF IDENTITY
• 5. LIFE EVENTS THAT IMPACT IDENTITY
• <6. OTHER FACTORS THAT IMPACT IDENTITY
• 7. HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT, IDENTITY, AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT
• 8. CONCLUSIONS. WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE. .